A TED Blog premiere video: At this year’s TEDActive, in Palm Springs, engineer Bruno Bowden tells the amazing story of NORAD’s quest to track Santa — and how Bruno’s employer now continues the quest:
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(This year’s countdown begins Dec. 24 at 2am Eastern.)
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In Short: HIV’s potential to treat cancer, plus 20 powerful moments in human rights videoEnjoy this sampling of the stories from around the internet that captured our interest this week: Can a disabled form of HIV be used to fight cancer? A story in The New York Times delves into an experimental treatment. Earlier this week, Markham Nolan shared how his team verifies videos from war-torn regions to make […]
commented on Dec 24 2011
TED Applied: http://youtu.be/cRfQSCLiMds
Jim Messeroll commented on Dec 23 2011
That was great, we will differently be following Santa’s track